Bountiful students try their hands at service

Washington Elementary School fifth-graders planted 130 tulip and crocus bulbs in the otherwise dirt-filled planters in front of their school on Friday as part of a Good Deeds Challenge, started by the Rocky Mountain Care Foundation.

“I hope they turn out to be teenagers who help others and adults who can see that others do so much for them and even someday, that they teach their own children the same values.”

Wendy Leonard works as a reporter for the Deseret News, and while her daily duties are dictated by breaking news, she currently focuses on writing about issues involving health care, medicine and transportation. She began more ..